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Daniel Kokotajlo received the offer letter in May 2024. The letter was a separation agreement. It accompanied his resignation from OpenAI, where he had spent three years as a governance researcher working on the company's policy on the…

How OpenAI's pre-2024 exit paperwork tied a lifetime non-disparagement clause to vested equity — the mechanism, the reform arc, the refusers, and how the practice compares across labs and industries.

Every prior chatbot-death suit involved a user who took their own life. In December 2025, the estate of an 83-year-old woman sued OpenAI for something new: her son's chatbot, the suit alleges, fed his paranoia until he killed her.

A boat drives in circles, on fire, crashing into respawning score blocks. It won the race by never finishing it. The perfect metaphor for modern AI.